Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu writes about the much-needed update to COVID-19 vaccines coming this fall – and the challenge getting people to receive them…
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Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Adeel Hassan reports on the dominance of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains in the U.S. Phil Tank reminds us of the folly…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cats.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the need for people to keep caring for and protecting each other to make up for being abandoned…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Geoff Thompson reports on new research showing that the cognitive decline caused by COVID-19 is worse than previously known, while the European…
The End of the Road?
In the early history of humanity there were a couple of instances where our species came close to disappearing. Yet we hung on and tens of thousands of years later…
#SKNDPLDR Roundup
A brief roundup of news and coverage from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as Sunday’s convention approaches. – There’s been some more media coverage at a high level, including Adam…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination…
Is It Just Me?
It’s really no biggie – if you weren’t in the front seat. Two men died when the Chinese Tesla clone pushed through a wall and plunged three storeys to the…
Musical interlude
Cannons – Fire For You
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Kit Yates weighs in on the work which still needs to be done to avoid further waves of COVID-19. And Marsha Barber writes…
"A House Divided."
The black robed Mullahs of the Supreme Court of Evangelistan have ruled. They cut their teeth on dismantling affirmative action and voter rights but yesterday they moved into the big…
Americans Have a "General Right" to Pack Heat – US Supreme Court versus Gun Control
Clarence Thomas wrote the majority judgment. No surprise there. The Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans generally have a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense and…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Resting cats.
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jon Henley writes that COVID is surging across Europe as governments and people alike ignore desperate warnings not to let their guard down.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a…
Going Dark. Chris Hedges and the Road to Hell.
It has been some time since Chris Hedges was a happy camper. That said, he outdid himself in his latest column, The Triumph of Death, in which the opening paragraph…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dhruv Khullar interviews Ashish Jha about what’s to come in the COVID-19 pandemic – including the desperate need for mitigation measures to reduce…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that most Canadians have far more reason to fear an austerity-fuelled recession than any foreseeable level of inflation.…
#SKNDPLDR: On Traps
The final official debate of the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign was the first I had the opportunity to see, and I’d hoped that it would result in some meaningful and…